Explicationem gravitatis per materiæ solidioris rejectionem in tangente, quod in physica Cartesiana prope pulcherrimum est, didicit ex Keplero, qui similitudine palearum motu aquæ in vase gyrantis ad centrum contrusarum rem explicuit primus.
This, which is the most important of all his works, is usually known by the name of “Physica Subterranea.
This constitutes the first supplement to the Physica Subterranea.
I find also in Weisse (Translation of and Comment on the Physica of Aristotle, p.
Footnote 45: To this extent I go along with the opinion expressed by Weisse in his translation of the Physica of Aristotle, p.
Indeed both the Physica and the Metaphysica, as we read them in Aristotle, would be considered in modern times as belonging alike to the department of Metaphysics.
He held (as we shall see more fully in the Physica and other treatises) that sequences throughout the Kosmos were to a certain extent regular, to a certain extent irregular.
In 1669 he published his Physica subterranea, and the same year was engaged with the count of Hanau in a scheme for settling a large territory between the Orinoco and the Amazon.
The learned Jesuit Caspar Schott, whose Physica Curiosa was one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century, also ventured to make the same mild statement.
For Schott, see hisPhysica Curiosa (edition of Wurzburg, 1667), p.
Footnote: It must not be supposed that I mean by this appellation what is generally called physica general is, and which is rather mathematics than a philosophy of nature.
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